Welcome!

Quantitative Text Analysis

2024-01-17

Introductions

Overview

  • Course goals
  • Approach
  • Resource setup
  • Getting help

Course goals

Data literacy

Identify, interpret and evaluate data analysis procedures and results

Research skills

Design, implement, and communicate quantitative research

Reproducible workflows

Apply programmatic strategies to develop and collaborate on reproducible research projects

And learn about language!

Approach

  • Learn by doing
  • Progress over product
  • Share and share alike

Resource setup

Getting started: Docker

  1. Install Docker Desktop
  2. Open Docker Desktop
  3. Pull the francojc/lin-380 image
  4. Start the container

Using Docker

From now on you will:

  1. Open Docker Desktop
  2. Start the container
  3. Open the container in web browser
  4. Log in to RStudio Server (with password)

Getting started: Hypothes.is

We will use Hypothes.is to annotate course readings. This is a flexible and powerful tool that will allow us to share and discuss our thoughts on the readings in a collaborative way.

  1. Create a Hypothes.is account
  2. Join the course group lin-380-s24
  3. Access the annotation layer on the readings (e.g textbook)

Getting help

  • Software Documentation / Online communities
  • Course homepage
  • Let’s meet!

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